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Nov 6, 2023·edited Nov 6, 2023Liked by Anna Anderson

"Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man" Romans 1:22-23

To me, a doctrine of male superiority appears to fit this description.

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Nov 5, 2023Liked by Anna Anderson

Looking forward to your further reflections on Gen 2, and also hoping you will explore Gen 3 and if/how you see the earth/heaven symbols manifesting in God’s distinct punishment for Adam and Eve. This is now a big question mark for me after seeing a connection between the Samaritan woman’s gospel work and Adam’s punishment of Gen 3:17. Ie, does that John 4 story illustrate the movement you describe of earthly work (symbolic sowing/reaping) which leads to heavenly rest? No need to answer now, just thinking out loud :-)

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Nov 11, 2023·edited Nov 11, 2023Author

Yes, in grace both their symbols are stated and reinstated. Eve, symbol of the heavenly realm (from heaven he came and sought her), is promised a male Seed (of the earth). As mother, both realm (Most High) and people (OT saints who "bottleneck" in Mary), she will bring forth that earthly Seed. In Luke 1, the Seed is the Son of the Most High, Son of God, born from above, yet also the heir of his father David (earthly realm destined for glory), one who will reign over the house of Jacob forever. In Gen. 3:16, I see Rev. 12, the Seed of the woman who crushes the Serpent who is cast out of heaven and is pursued and defeated on earth. In Genesis 3, the woman is cursed in her womb, representative of the spring and sphere of life, and the earth is cursed in relation to the man. Again Adam, the man, like Gen. 2, is associated with the dust of the earth and told he will return there. He has come from the earth and now he will return to earth. Astonishingly, Adam turns to his wife Eve and gives her a name. She will be "mother of the all-living," not the dusty all dying. She is associated with life, the sphere of life, the river of life, and the tree of life in Revelation. And in John 3 we are told, "you must be born anothen (from above)" from the realm of the all-living. The Seed is from above, from the Most High, and he has descended so that his people and the beloved cosmos (Jn. 3:16) might become again the realm of life, in the earth's union with heaven. The union of the man and the woman foreshadow the union of earth and heaven, when Zion descends to transform and conform the earth to never-ending life.

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Interesting! I would say Kierkegaard had a trinitarian understanding of the human condition, holding together body, and soul, the temporal and the eternal, freedom and necessity. And the one who must hold it together he calls the self, spirit. Finite spirit, given from infinite spirit.

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